Live Play Data

Ashnod's Altar

· Artifact · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3399

Decks Running

1648

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=500

10%

12%

13%

47%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 16% (51 / 500 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

3400 brought · 1237 players

Brought to game

3400

Ever drawn

770

Reached battlefield

500

Still on board at game end

387

Once cast, 77% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=465) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=2229).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=236).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +9.8pp; 95% confidence interval +5.5pp to +14.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

881 instances

3.1%

Library

43.9%

Battlefield

22.7%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 86 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 49 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 48 decks
4 Teysa Karlov 46 decks
5 Ashling, the Limitless 35 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 35 decks
7 Marneus Calgar 33 decks
8 Ygra, Eater of All 26 decks
9 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 25 decks
10 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 25 decks

Card text

Ashnod's Altar

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}

Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Greg Staples

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.